In attempting to promote bank stability, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2006) provides a framework that seeks to control the amount of tail risk that large banks take in their trading books. However, banks around the world suffered sizeable trading losses during the recent crisis....

Recent regulatory efforts aim at lowering the cyclicality of bank lending because of its potential detrimental effects on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs. without a public mandate, controlling for location, size, loan...

Die Geschichte des Bankwesens und die Herausbildung moderner Strukturen in der Kreditwirtschaft sind begleitet von Akquisitionsvorgängen. Gerade in jüngerer Zeit mit ihren vielfältigen Konzentrationsphänomenen haben diese Vorgänge eine immer höhere Bedeutung für die Herausbildung von...